Blog Posts Link Love: 1/26/2018 January 26, 2018 by Effie Kapsalis Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting stories on issues impacting the collection, preservation, and presentation of museum and archival collections. Link Love: 1/12/2018 January 12, 2018 by Effie Kapsalis Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, Washington D.C & American history. Link Love: 1/5/2018 January 5, 2018 by Effie Kapsalis Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, Washington D.C & American history. And don’t forget your badge this time! January 2, 2018 by Nora Lockshin Our conservator invites cultural heritage disaster responders from federal agencies to a discussion on serving on detail with FEMA’s Heritage Emergency National Task Force. See Here: 12/29/2017 December 29, 2017 by Kira M. Sobers A Close-up with Field Book “Specimens” December 26, 2017 by William Bennett See how one collection of field books yielded a variety of challenges and treatments for the Archives’ conservators. Link Love: 12/15/2017 December 15, 2017 by Effie Kapsalis Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, Washington D.C & American history. A Conservator Abroad: Paper Conservation in Japan November 16, 2017 by William Bennett Conservation training occurs around the world on a regular basis—have a peek at one of our conservators learning traditional Japanese conservation techniques to help inform modern approaches to paper conservation. A New Solution for an Old Scrapbook November 14, 2017 by Alison Reppert Gerber Take a look at this new preservation solution for scrapbooks that are from Elizabeth C. Reed, wife of National Zoological Park’s (NZP) Director Theodore H. Reed. The Tintinnabulation of the Poe Poe Poe-m October 31, 2017 by By Nora Lockshin and assorted ghost writers (Tad Bennicoff & Deborah Shapiro) Even in the most modern of archives, some spooky things lurk right under our noses. Enjoy a poem that sings their praises…or does it? Pages« first‹ previous123456789…next ›last »Produced by the Smithsonian Institution Archives. For copyright questions, please see the Terms of Use.